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[Android Apps and Games] evilhunter101:
Is the idea just to keep the dot(s) in the top right corner? If so, then no, unfortunately that's a very bad idea. Using the same 1 or 2 pixels to act as a notification light would lead to the premature burn out of that area of the screen. While it may look nice, the risk is not one I suspect many of us would like to take.
[Android Apps and Games] evilhunter101:
There is only one possible way to make NoLED behave the way you want. In, the settings, check the "Delay SMS notification" box. If that doesn't work, there could be interference with another app.

Also, when you dismiss the NoLED notification, (after checking the box mentioned above) the Handcent popup will still appear after you get past your lock screen. This is something that cannot be avoided.
[Android Apps and Games] jrharvey:
Well the dot is moving from the top of the screen to the middle and COULD possibly hit 20-30 different possitions before repeating itself. I dont see how this is any different than the current dot setup other than its a single straight line instead of a 1/2"x1/2" box. This would just be a 2" straight line. I doubt that would cause burn in but IDK.
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
I think your gif image didn't animate for him for some reason. That's why he thought it was static.
[Android Apps and Games] DarrenCarnall:
for the record I love the standard icons... like mini neon signs, or vector graphics or something. But I do like the idea of being able to choose larger ones if we so wish. (although i guess being able to choose from different icon sets can't hurt) :D
[Android Apps and Games] KMan94:
Just about exactly what I was looking for

I found out about this cool app from the XDA Q&A section. Installed it and have it working. A trivial thing or suggestion... could there be a separate icon for voice mail and missed calls? Seems like the information is there to know. I know if I look for missed calls I should see the voice mail but if I see a voice mail notification I'd know that too.
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
I kinda agree with you. I like the "neon" effects of these standard icons. I'll see if I can add these new icons only as an optional alternative.

You can use "All other" for voicemails perhaps ? I haven't looked into the available APIs so far for voice mail, I wonder whether google left these open or closed. but meanwhile, I gave you a temporary solution that might work out for you.
[Android Apps and Games] evilhunter101:
Madmack's right, it didn't animated for me. Well now that I know what you really meant then it isn't a bad idea at all. I don't know how many would want it though, as most seem partial to the icon set up.
[Android Apps and Games] KMan94:
madmack - thanks for the suggestion I'll try it out and let you know. I looked for an app like this on the market using "voice mail notification" "notifications" and a couple of others I can't remember and it didn't come up. I'm not sure how that search works but I thought you'd like to know. It is such a great app that I'll bet if more could find it you'd have more "opportunites"!
[Android Apps and Games] ktez:
I finally figured out why the settings come up when you unlock the screen - when you go to the settings you have to hit the back button to exit, if you just hit home or go to notifications then the settings will keep coming up.
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
I can't believe it.!!! THANK YOU. Now we have a solution to all of these problems we thought were associated with Launcher Pro.

I'll make sure I fix that bug (if possible), otherwise I'll put that question up in the FAQ.

This is an awesome find. don't even know how u did it ;)
[Android Apps and Games] mattpall:
Great App!!

Excellent job MadMack!!

Is there any change to add exchange mail notifications for the mail app? I currently just use the "all others" notifications, but an exchange mail notification would rock!!

Thanks again and keep up the good work.
[Android Apps and Games] schiphol:
Hi PhoenixFx,

So madmack decided (or was forced) not to implement a feature that allows alternative icon selecting yet. Could you maybe post an apk of the newest version with your icons? I'm a big fan of those! I kinda feel stupid asking but I tried replacing icons with winrar but the app wont install after that!
[Android Apps and Games] dronepop:
Use BOTH blink and icons on G2

I have tried various settings, but I'm not able on my G2 to get the desired behavior:

Display the icon for event on the screen (mail, SMS, etc)

Concurrently blink the light around the trackpad

On the G2, the trackpad light is pretty dim, but I'd still like to have BOTH that and the icon if possible. Right now, the icons show briefly, then disappear when the trackpad light begins pulsing.

Also, I seem to be getting an icon for "other" (a little android head?) instead of an icon for gMail, when I get gMails.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidCat:
madmack-> great work!

I recently noticed that NoLED does not work when you have Call Block application installed /look for 'Call Block Unlimited' in the Market/.

Even though in my case black and white list are empty (for the sake of testing NoLED) and the call goes through and registers as "missed", NoLED does not display any notification. If I kill Call Block process NoLED works back again.

If there is any quick fix for that I would appreciate your input, thanks. I assume there is some interaction issue when Call Block tries to analyze or intercept the call.
[Android Apps and Games] schiphol:
I have a problem with version 3.0. Whenever I have a missed call the other notifications automatically get dismissed. I don't think it was doing that before...
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
This is due to your phone terminating the NoLED notification screen due to limited RAM. It happens sometimes when you're low on RAM. I'll have to save the state and bring it back up to fix this issue. Happened to me a couple of times too.

I really can't help with 3rd party app. You might want to contact the developers of this app to see what they're doing exactly. They're probably overriding some listening state, or are keeping the screen on after you receive a missed call.

Happy to see G2 users using that app :) This app was not really designed to trigger the trackpad light that you guys have. I'm glad that it does work for some of you with the new "Blink" feature, but understand that your trackpad lights up only because when "Blinking", NoLED holds a screen wake lock temporarily, which triggers this trackpad light.

I don't explicitly control these lights in anyway, so it'll be impossible for me to design it in a way that will keep the screen on (read: notifications displaying) while blinking that trackpad. Now if I had a G2 ;) I might've released something just for that specific need. Unfortunately, we have no use for it on our galaxy phones, and I'm not exactly sure about the trackpad drivers or the specific setup of the G2 phone which I'd need to know about if I ever was going to support said feature.

Meanwhile, why don't you use NoLED like a lot of us are: disable the "Blink" feature, and rely on your screen for the notifications.

Side note: I'm releasing a new version soon which will have the ability to disable the little "NoLED is on/off" popups, and a cool new feature which will allow you to "Test" your selection of colors/icons/dots by previewing the notification screen.

I got some free time to work on this today, so thought I might as well make the app a bit more fancy :)
[Android Apps and Games] Rosa Elefant:
Yay! :)
[Android Apps and Games] dronepop:
Thanks so much for the quick response, this is what I will do. FYI, Blink does work fine on the G2, very well in fact, just not along with the icons. I'd use the blink but the trackpad light on this phone just isn't very bright.

Good job on a great app!
[Android Apps and Games] padlad:
I couldn't get v3.1 to work, nothing happened when I enabled it. Luckily I still had v3.0, which I re-installed and now it works without any problems. Not sure what was going on there?
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
An SMS bug was introduced in v3.1 when I added MMS support. Get v3.1.1 from the market which fixes the SMS bug.
[Android Apps and Games] padlad:
That's better, works great, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Flyarnk:
Any chances you could add notification for Touchdown Exchange Email?
[Android Apps and Games] PhoenixFx:
Here you go:

Made the info icon a little bigger and added slightly different voicemail and calendar icons.

P.S : I use APK Manager to change resource files.
[Android Apps and Games] DanielHurtubise:
K9 mail

Could you add K9 mail to the list of applications. It's a pretty popular mail application that is a lot better then the provided one.

Thanks :-)
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
and it supports exchange. I'll get right on it. apparently its fairly easy to add that, they made it so accessible :)
[Android Apps and Games] razorseal:
How is this affecting the battery life guys?

probably mentioned, but i'm not going to search 100+ pages for the answer :D
[Android Apps and Games] DarthV:
Wouldn't mind the default mail program being in there as well. Haven't really read back the last few pages, but with the last version I had updated to, everything came up with the red ! icon for 'other'. Uninstalled and reinstalled the app and I'll see if it's ok now.
[Android Apps and Games] DarthV:
Yep, working fine again :)
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
K9 support NoLED v3.2

I added K9 support but I need some more testing before putting it on the market.

(regular email client doesn't work, read the FAQ on why)

I'm attaching it here, and I'll keep it that way for a day or two. Let me know if it works :) You'll need K9 > v2.3
[Android Apps and Games] schiphol:
PhoenixFX,

Cool, newly added icons look swell as well. Many thanks!

Think I figured out how to exchange them in the apk myself now, guess I'll just have to do that every time a new release comes out :)
[Android Apps and Games] androidmonkey:
Can you tell us how? I would like to create my own icons.
[Android Apps and Games] PhoenixFx:
Use APK Manager.

Copy the .apk you want to edit to APK Manager Folder\place-apk-here-for-modding

Run script.bat

select option 22 to set the active project

select option 1 to extract the .apk

Change the resources at .\projects\NoLED-x.x.x.apk\res\drawable

Zip it back (option 3)

Sign (Option 4)

Copy the moded .apk back to your phone

Uninstall existing NoLED app

Install the moded one.
[Android Apps and Games] RaymondPJR:
NoLed

Wow, madmack, this is incredible! I started reading the thread yesterday (about 3 pages) then went to bed. Today I realized it had gotten to the point that you released it on the market. A million thanx! After a little fiddling I got it working right. You can bet I'll be showing this off to anyone I meet with a Galaxy S phone! When I open my new account, I will donate:D
[Android Apps and Games] xero2002:
Wondering if this will at some point list other email accounts besides my Gmail account?

Or does that fall under "Others"?
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
get v3.2 from page 115 that I posted yesterday which should support K9 emails (K9 is an email program that supports many types of emails, including Exchange accounts). You should see them listed in NoLED once you have K9 setup. They get their own icons, and you can customize their colors :)

Once I get some feedback that v3.2 works, I'll put that up on the Market.
[Android Apps and Games] xero2002:
I must have been blind, cause I was reading through the last few pages. /sigh

Well, what if I want to stick to either the default Samsung Mail program, or AOSP mail?
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
FAQ will get that one for you.
[Android Apps and Games] Flyarnk:
I am not getting notification for "Others" where I used to get it for my Touchdown Exchange email.
[Android Apps and Games] xero2002:
I did. ;)

It just didn't fully answer my question. :)

I have three email accounts handled by the Samsung email app.

Yahoo, Gmail and another one from my ISP. No Exchange.

I assume when ticking "all others" it will give me a note for Yahoo and my ISP.

While Gmail will have it's own.
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
when we say Gmail, we really mean the Gmail app. not any third party software that checks your Gmail account.

for "other" notifications to work, you'll need to set the ringtone in your app to some default Samsung tone. "Bubbles" is an example of that.

so set your yahoo, ISP and Gmail account to have these ringtones and you should see an "other" notification when your phone is not in silent/vibrate mode.

orrr , you can import all these emails in k9 and customize each email's color/icon. :) keeping your Gmail email in the google native Gmail app which supports threading and all the other goodies. that way, they also work in silent mode.
[Android Apps and Games] PhoenixFx:
@ madmack: Here are the 2x version of the new icons

if you need 3x I'll try to make them, but it will take some time, since I have to upscale and smoothen out resizing artifacts of some of the icons manually.
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
Thanks Phoenix :) Don't worry about x3 for now. Lets see how these will look on NoLED and go from there.

You wouldn't mind if I only choose a few of these icons, and use the others from Kimmo (the old icons' designer) ? I personally think that some icons look better the other in each set.
[Android Apps and Games] prosto_mike:
Great to see that K9 support is finally here! Thanks for this, I have been waiting for this since the day I started using NoLED (v0.3 and up).

I have a suggestion as far as icons is concerned. How about not packaging them into the apk but having them somewhere in the file system as icon sets or themes? e.g. /noled/themes/default; /noled/themes/myTheme etc. This way people would be able to create their own icon set and could easily share them here.

Obviously icon names should adhere to a certain naming convention, and in Settings one should be able to point to a desired theme folder...

Thanks for a great job.
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
Not a bad idea. Thanks for the suggestion :) I pack default icons with the apk, but then have users download themes and make them optional.

Guys, any FCs with the K9 beta version ? I see that some of you downloaded it ? any comment about it ? does it work and show the K9 footprints when you receive an email in K9 ?

I might go ahead and put it up in the market by the end of the day.

I'm actually thinking of releasing a second market app and call it Beta. I will keep pushing things to that beta version frequently, and every once and and while, we update the other stable release. Too many users on the stable release now, if I change a small thing, all hell breaks lose in my email inbox !! :eek:
[Android Apps and Games] Emrys_90:
Any chance of adding in an icon for Google Voice?
[Android Apps and Games] evilhunter101:
I just got two force closes using the the beta with k9 enabled. They both seem to have occurred when I had gmail notifications. This time, the crash reporter actually worked for me. I sent the report to you in the last 10 or so minutes.

Also, the k9 footprints didnt show for either of my accounts in k9. Don't know if the two issues are related.
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
did u enable the icons for your k9 accounts ? the default is still dots
[Android Apps and Games] evilhunter101:
Yes I did, customized the colors and all :)
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
and you still don't receive the footprints ? When you customize the colors, can you click on the added option that i called "TEST" to see if they'll show there ?

thanks for the bug report btw, I got it and fixed it :)
[Android Apps and Games] evilhunter101:
When I do the test function it works perfectly. When I receive a k9 email it just doesn't seem to notice. Are there any settings in k9 I should have active?
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
hmmm, do you have an old version of k9? the one I tested with is v3.2 and it works with me.

if you're using the latest k9 version, did you install it after installing NoLED, or did you have it before installing NoLED ?

if its the former, can you back NoLED up (to preserve your settings) using something like titanium, then uninstall NoLED and reinstall it again with titanium.
[Android Apps and Games] evilhunter101:
According to the market, I have the newest version of k9. I had it before you implemented k9 support in NoLED... odd. Not a big deal by the way, just trying to get to the bottom of this.
[Android Apps and Games] evilhunter101:
Interesting, I just checked the NoLED settings again and my k9 emails are no longer listed. I am going to uninstall and reinstall NoLED.
[Android Apps and Games] EddieCz:
Exchange support

Maybe it was mentioned before, but i would like to ask for exchange account support because it is primary one for me. Thanks

Ed.
[Android Apps and Games] BlueEyes99:
Okay first of all I want to say that this is a top notch application a must have for everyone. I am not a big fan of the LED that other phones have but I am a big fan of NoLED ;-)

Anyway, my only concern is battery drain. Normally, I dont have more than a 5% drop over night, even when I am using NoLED. Now sometimes it happens that someone will call or text me when I am already in bed not paying attention to my phone and so it happens that the symbols appear on the screen, which of course is a good thing. The bad thing is, that by the time I get up and check the sceen (I usually sleep around 7 hours) My phone will experience a 35% drop over night. It doesnt sound much when you phone is fully charged. It is mouch when you go to bed with a 60% charged phone not thinking something will happen and wake up to a 25% charged phone ;-)

So maybe someone has a solution to this.
[Android Apps and Games] prosto_mike:
My solution to this problem - plug in a charger at night, that s what I do.

Madmack, thanks again for a great app, so far no problems with K9, everything works as expected
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
We're releasing a version with support for K9 (an app that has some exchange support) soon. You'll need to use that or just use "All other" notifications for that account.

I'll give you another solution which I use. Turn on "Proximity Sensor", then flip the phone upside down when you go to bed :) that way your screen remains off until you wake up and flip it back up.
[Android Apps and Games] PhoenixFx:
No worries :)

Yep, I too like the idea of using external icons, so users can have their own.

@madmack: If you decide to support external icon files, then perhaps you could also add support for saving configuration settings to an external file as well (i.e: color settings, and various other options), so we can easily reload everything after a version update :).
[Android Apps and Games] vkc1976:
So is it compatible with Widgetlocker or not?

My notifications are not appearing when using widget locker. Am i doing something wrong?
[Android Apps and Games] ragin:
Gives a lot of FCs when Sztupy's ULK is turned on. DOESNT WORK.
[Android Apps and Games] mazzieh:
Yes, he is right! Beer for him! We want pingchat support!
[Android Apps and Games] xodeus:
Anyone got it working on HTC Desire?!?
[Android Apps and Games] nodens76:
Hello there,

I have a legend and i could be interested to this app.

Does the legend's amoled screen have the same properties as the Galaxy S (Ultra low power consumption on black screen) ?

Does this app work on htc (Legend or Desire) ?
[Android Apps and Games] baleanud:
LEDs burning?

Great app! Thanks.

If burning the screen is still a concern why not snake the dots on the whole screen one line at a time and keep track of where you got to, to start from there next notification? That way they all burn the same.
[Android Apps and Games] ProfWolfMan:
Excellent Thought!

Excellent Thought!:o

Really i am loving it.

Will expect more on future versions.

Thanks a lot friend!!!!!!!!!!!

-G
[Android Apps and Games] lqaddict:
Thanks a ton! Looking forward to future releases :) works great on Sammy Vibrant, it even brings me to unlock screen without the need to press side button :)
[Android Apps and Games] gadjet0:
Brilliant!

I was reading another post about notification LEDs and someone was joking about having 1000's of LEDs and I was wondering about using a few only to simulate a notification, I just wish I had the ability to code something like this.

I'm going to give it a try now.:)

It makes me glad I decided to dump the Iphone
[Android Apps and Games] adi_g_s:
Hi,

the app is useful, but i'm having issues with my Galaxy S.

I get the SMS notification but i can no longer get into the home screen, pressing the Home Button or Power, it switches between full black screen and "one red dot" screen. I had to remove the battery for accessing the phone again.

Hope it will get improvements.
[Android Apps and Games] britoso:
Works on my Nexus One. :)

The capacitive buttons light up though, turning off the light with a "echo 0" to the button device file will fix it.

thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] dafunky:
Not working on my Desire - Froyo... Lucky boy(s)

EDIT : finally it works, cool :)
[Android Apps and Games] Disconn3ct:
When you see the 1-red-dot screen, press and release home (it should light up)

At that point, the dot screen should go away and the lock screen comes back.
[Android Apps and Games] PetroOMG:
Works on default HTC Desire ROM with LauncherPro :) its great! now if I could disable that silly green led and that red dot could be turned into simple icon and maybe even different colors I would be happy camper.
[Android Apps and Games] Sarae878:
How do i get this on my phone?
[Android Apps and Games] EddiJoJo:
Download it to your PC, copy the file to your phone, and install it through AppInstaller for instance.
[Android Apps and Games] madmack:
I'm surprised and amazed at the growing response that I'm getting here for this. Didn't think there was such demand for something like this, specially for people with phones that already have an LED notification like the nexus one.

I just wanna note that although this program might work on non-galaxy s phones, it surely is not programmed to. for example, the program turns off the digitizer of the screen (the touch capabilities) which saves on battery. this is very specific to the hardware that's only available on the galaxy s. am disabling this without using any global android APIs, so while it may work on your desire/nexus one or any other phone with an AMOLED screen, it will most likely, if not surely, Not disable the touch screen on these versions.

Also, I noticed that the US variants of the galaxy S have capacitive buttons even for the home key. the reason why I chose the home key to unlock the phone (and get rid of the notification) is because its the only non-capacitive button we have on the international galaxy s. using it on the vibrant or captivate and hitting the home capacitive button by mistake will, unfortunately, take the notification screen away.

Once am back, I'll continue developing this app, focusing ofcourse on keeping the current light system resources usage that this app uses. If I'm going to make fancier icons with different colors and fade in/out kinda motion, we'll have to watch out for these things.
[Android Apps and Games] Disconn3ct:
Does it hold a wakelock? I'm concerned about battery use from that offsetting the OLED savings.

(On devices with a specific notification led it is handled outside the cpu - the app cpu simply defines color, brightness and blink pattern and then goes to sleep.)

Also, as far as not open sourcing it, it is your choice but be careful where you got "inspiration" - you talked about several apps/drivers, and if any of those are gpl you may have to open it..

Edit: what about using vol or proximity instead of home?
[Android Apps and Games] gtnobes:
File Problem

I click on the link and it says it can't open because it does not know what kind of file it is or it was created with.
[Android Apps and Games] Ahmed Alzayani:
That's my idea

That's my idea! (androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s/106676-charging-indicator-notification-led.html#post1008477 , sorry i can't post links!) . It's good to see someone doing it.